Experience

HRL Laboratories, LLC

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Optical Metrology Engineer

  • Dec 2022 - Present

  Malibu, California, United States Expert in optical thin-film and inspection metrology. Responsible for in-house reflectometers, ellipsometers, and inspection tools and applications.



Transphorm Inc.

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr. Product Engineer

  • Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

  Goleta, California, United States

• Product Engineer

  • Mar 2021 - Aug 2022

  Goleta, California, United States



Intel Corporation

• United States
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Components Research Engineer

  • Oct 2018 - Mar 2021

  Hillsboro, OR Acquisition and development of advanced semiconductor process & technology to enable performance and scaling improvements for FEOL devices and BEOL embedded memory systems.



University of California, Santa Barbara

• Graduate Student Researcher

  • Aug 2013 - Sep 2018

  Santa Barbara, California Area Specialization in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth and characterization of ferromagnetic single crystal thin films for use in spintronic devices. A continuing focus of my work was obtaining perpendicular magnetic anisotropy that leads to greater device scalability, better state lifetimes and lower power consumption. Half metals such as full-Heusler Co2MnSi and other variants that have been shown to have fully spin-polarized conduction electrons. Half-metals are predicted to improve device… Show more Specialization in molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth and characterization of ferromagnetic single crystal thin films for use in spintronic devices. A continuing focus of my work was obtaining perpendicular magnetic anisotropy that leads to greater device scalability, better state lifetimes and lower power consumption. Half metals such as full-Heusler Co2MnSi and other variants that have been shown to have fully spin-polarized conduction electrons. Half-metals are predicted to improve device state discrimination. My thesis project sought to combine perpendicular anisotropy and half-metallicity into a single material that would be ideal for certain high performance spintronic applications. Additionally, I worked with materials exhibiting non-trivial topological electronic behavior. For example, full-Heusler Co2TiGe has been predicted to possess Weyl fermion states that are the source of extremely large Berry curvatures. These materials exhibit large, and potentially quantized, anomalous Hall conductivity, which could be used in certain magnetic sensor applications. In the past, I have contributed to the study of ultrathin epitaxial Fe films grown using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on MgO(001) surfaces. The films are studied in-situ using reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED), magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE), x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The films are then capped and characterized ex-situ by superconducting quantum interference device magnetometry (SQUID). Show less



Center for Science and Engineering Partnerships

• United States
• Education Administration Programs
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Course Instructor, School for Scientific Thought

  • Jan 2015 - Mar 2015

  UC Santa Barbara Create course content and demonstrations for outreach program. Lecture for 16 high school students. Present physics and electrical engineering ideas in an accessible manner. Lead activities and maintain safety practices in a semiconductor device processing cleanroom. Director: Wendy Ibsen.



UC Santa Barbara

• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Graduate Teaching Assistant

  • Jan 2015 - Mar 2015

  Santa Barbara, California Area Create and grade homework and exam materials for a Materials 101 course. Lead discussion section for 10-20 undergraduate students. Course coverage included chemistry, crystallography, ductility, slip mechanics, diffusion, defects, dislocations, polymer physics, phase diagrams, phase transformations, and specific properties and microstructures of the Fe-C system. Course Instructor: James Speck, UCSB.



University of Oregon

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Researcher

  • Jun 2010 - Aug 2013

  Eugene, Oregon Area Helped to design a vacuum system capable of trapping and cooling neutral 88Sr for use as a force probe in Casimir-Polder experiments. Advisor: Daniel Steck.

• UCORE Fellow

  • Jun 2010 - Sep 2011

  Assemble, calibrate, and integrate equipment for use in laser cooling experiments. STEM Tutoring. Build demos for use in science lectures at Lane Community College. Assist fellowship coordinator Kate Hulpke.



Keller Supply

• Warehouse Foreman

  • Feb 2007 - Jul 2009

  Eugene, Oregon Area Wholesale plumbing product franchise in the western states. Operate forklift, dispatch delivery drivers, schedule shipping/receiving. Chairperson of the safety committee. Branch Manager: John Boykin. 541-342-7000



Sears

• Electronics Sales

  • Dec 2004 - Feb 2007

  Springfield, OR Offer information and product advice to customers in a retail environment. Supervisor: Matt Gauntlett.